BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: conservative columnist Myra Adams

How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom? “Today, husband David and I will be enjoying ‘flyover country’ bound for San Francisco to celebrate my stepgrandson’s third birthday tomorrow and mine too, one day late. My stepson works for Google and when we visit he helps us better utilize our various devices since we were born in ancient times.”

How did you get your start in politics? “Raised as a Democrat in the Boston suburb of Needham, I never met a Republican until I went off to college. Then two years later, I was chairwoman of Ohio State College Republicans! During that era Karl Rove was king of national College Republicans, and I remember him as a brilliant policy wonk with glasses and long hair.”

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What's an interesting book/article you’re reading now or finished? And why? “I am reading what every good Republican is reading – ‘Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. It is appalling how Hillary blamed her staff for their inability to solve or defuse all the problems that she created. On election night at Clinton’s Javits Center coronation headquarters in NYC, I was an eye-witness to ‘shattered’ with a Washington Examiner press credential. But I will never forget it was early on Election Day when a friend told me he was ‘crunching data with Steve’ [Bannon] and predicted Trump’s victory. I laughed at him saying, ‘Only with divine intervention.’”

What is a trend going on in the U.S. or abroad that doesn’t get enough attention? “The alarming growth of U.S. unfunded liabilities, now at $106 trillion. Our government acknowledges that we are on an unsustainable course where future benefits promised to an aging population are ‘unfunded.’ This is a ticking time bomb for social upheaval.”

How do you think the Trump presidency is going? “Between us, I am concerned that he will not finish his first term for a variety of reasons.”

What’s a goal of yours for the next year? “I can’t answer that directly because Playbook readers will think that I am some crazy right-wing Bible-quoting Jewish Christian who attends Catholic Church. Instead, Google (Mark 12: 30–31) and that is my goal for next year and every year.”

What's your morning routine? “Woke up, fell out of bed dragged a comb across my head.” Then I read Playbook to see if any friends are mentioned, causing trouble, making headlines, or have been indicted.”